Syndicated Columnist Robert Koehler Writes for Tomorrow's Papers: 'Possibility of Tainted Results, a Prospect Most of Media Can't Bear' - http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5532

Syndicated Tribune Media Services columnist Bob Koehler bumps up our serious concerns about last night's wholly untransparent, and still-uncounted (by anything but a hackable Diebold computer, and a company with an executive criminal past, to say the least) New Hampshire Primary election results, from "blogger conspiracy theory" to mainstream media concern.

Here are the first few grafs of his column, set to run in tomorrow's editions of subscribing mainstream media papers...

New England voting machine firm has executive criminal record - http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/71236.html?1199935102

They program every single voting machine in New Hampshire, Connecticut, almost all of Massachusetts, Vermont, and Maine. But did state officials in five New England states ever do a criminal background check on this company's executives? Do the laws of these five states even ALLOW them to hire convicted criminals for services paid for by the state? What about over 500 local towns and municipalities?

According to my sources, LHS Marketing and Sales Director Ken Hajjar grew up with owner John Silvestro in Lawrence, Massachusetts. They both moved to Londonderry, New Hampshire, where Ken Hajjar was arrested, indicted, and pleaded guilty to "sale / CND" and sentenced to 12 months in the Rockingham County Correctional facility, and fined $2000. As things go for the politically connected, he was then given a deferred sentence and $1000 of his fine was suspended.

Hajjar doesn't limit his involvement in the voting machine business to sales. According to an interview conducted by Brad Friedman, Hajjar totes memory cards around in the trunk of his car and defends the boggling concept of swapping out memory cards during the middle of elections.

http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/71200.html?1199928145

UPDATE JAN 9 9am PST: TOWN OF SUTTON CONFIRMS RON PAUL TOTALS WERE 31, NOT ZERO.

I just got off the phone with Jennifer Call, Town Clerk for Sutton. She confirmed that the Ron Paul totals in Sutton were actually 31, and said that they were "left off the tally sheet" and it was human error.

This is not an acceptable answer, especially because one of the most common forms of fraud in a hand count system is to alter or omit results on the reporting sheet. Hand count is lovely, transparent. They then fill out another reconciliation sheet, often in front of witnesses, and it looks fine. Then they provide a summary or media sheet with the incorrect results.

A Web site here: http://www.wheresthepaper.org has more on fraud techniques with hand counted paper ballots. You'll have to dig for it -- or Google, and the excellent research on this is Theresa Hommel from the state of New York.

But so what? It's just business as usual. We've got an empire to run, amirite? Secrecy and bullshitery are tools. Can't let the bad acting of a couple of goldbrickers stop the agenda of the Death Machine. That's where all of the big $_$ and power is at! Or maybe it was made to fail, send a subliminal fuck you. Don't want to get into conspiracy O_o

Oh noes, some speedboats got near our warships. Why are our warships there in the first place again? Maybe everyone needs to get into the Imperial Spirit. Some cheerleading is order. 40,000 lbs of bombs dropped in 10 minutes? A little bird told me that Depleted Uranium grows on trees now, and that Countrywide is on my side.

Is it even possible they were brave?

more like stupid.

It looks like Kucinich has hopped on board the recount train, choo choo!

http://www.dennis4president.com/go/homepage-items/kucinich-asks-for-new-hampshire-recount-in-the-interest-of-election-integrity/

Almost a year to the day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d8MIENVtKw

http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2007/cr011107.htm

Spin what? There was no "fraud", right ;) isn't it supposed to be that everyone is a closeted bigot, and a liar too, telling lies to those pollsters? Whatever it is, it is our fault.

I think the TNR smeared pissed of the Dr.

Yeah, ending the empire is pretty loony. I guess that's why the Democracts gave up on it. Assuming they ever really planned on ending the war in the first place.

And the Dems will keep supplying the money. Depleted Uranium doesn't grow on trees, 40,000 bombs in 10 minutes, thanks Democrats!